Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Joey Hess]

Eric Dorland wrote:
> So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at
> http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against
> user-agent insanity. We could of course make it say Firefox easily,
> but this certainly seems a bit defeatist.

s/defeatist/defeated/

I realized this battle was over when discussion on debian-user revieled
that google maps behaved differently in firefox than iceweasel, because it
used a firefox-UA specific test to enable a feature (closing the sidebar
to make the map take up the full screen).

If the top website out there gets it "wrong", the battle is effectively 
over; "right" or "wrong" no longer really matters (victors write history
etc).

> I think we should almost
> certainly document the workaround better in the README.Debian. Of
> course I highly respect Joey's opinion so I'm open to more
> convincing. 

I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users
who just find that this strange "iceweasel" browser we install by
default doesn't work on sites that firefox works on.

-- 
see shy jo
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